Starting Over as a Kindergartener to Fulfill My First Love! - Episode 00

Kaori Tsunetani-sensei…

Commonly known as… Tsune-chan

I can’t believe I found out that my first love has passed away…

For me, who is already in such a miserable situation, it has become even more depressing with the addition of this new content.

In the past few years, I was so busy with work that I didn’t have time to think about Tsune-chan, but hearing about her passing brought back memories from that time like a revolving lantern.

I transferred to the kindergarten where Tsune-chan works from the second semester of my senior year in kindergarten.

When I was born, we lived in a cultural housing complex in the neighboring city.

But when I was in the middle of my first semester in the local kindergarten, my parents found a nice house in the neighboring city.

It seems that my parents had been working hard in their business with the goal of buying a detached house, and they jumped at the chance to buy the house we are currently living in.

Without even considering my feelings…

Before I moved, I was quite the little troublemaker back in my hometown.

I had many friends and I think the people working in the local shopping district also took a liking to me.

Looking back now, that might have been the peak of my life.

I said goodbye to my friends I had been close with during summer vacation and moved to my current town.

My mother, thinking it was for my own good, forcibly made me join the neighborhood kids and play with them, but I couldn’t quite fit in and gradually became a quiet person without realizing it.

For a while, I would remember my old friends and cry every night in bed.

And so, Tsune-chan was my only salvation.

They kindly welcomed me, who had transferred in the middle of the second semester, and who was full of anxiety.

It turns out later that Tsune-chan became a kindergarten teacher that year.

As a first-year working adult filled with anxiety, I think Tsune-chan, who was doing her best as a teacher, immediately sensed my anxious feelings that had come from nowhere.

That’s why Tsune-chan was always by my side.

To the point where other children in the kindergarten get jealous…

And before I knew it, I had come to like Tsune-chan not as a “teacher” but as a “member of the opposite s3x.”

Looking back now, I think I was quite a precocious kid.

As time passed, I came to face my graduation from kindergarten.

It was a painful graduation ceremony for me.

The anxiety about becoming an elementary school student was significant, but the hardest part was definitely being separated from Tsune-chan.

On the day of the graduation ceremony, I heard a shocking story from my mother, and I was in no mood to celebrate the graduation.

I heard that Tsune-chan will be working at a different kindergarten starting in April.

I thought that even after becoming an elementary school student, if I went to the kindergarten to play, I would still be able to see Tsune-chan, so the shock was even greater.

It was that they were moving to a kindergarten in a distant city that you can only get to by train from my town.

But, now that I think about it, for the kindergarten me, that distant town might have been just a stone’s throw away for the current me…

And from here on, my memories become hazy.

I can’t remember if it was after the graduation ceremony or on another day, but for some reason, I was at the train station platform with my mother, and there was Tsune-chan, who was about to board the train.

And then, they probably exchanged farewell words, handed over a bouquet, shook hands, and parted ways.

It was a sudden farewell…

Since that day, I haven’t seen Tsune-chan.

At that time, why didn’t I ask for the name of the next kindergarten I would work at?

Why didn’t you ask for the home address?

If I, as a kindergartener, couldn’t do it, why didn’t you ask my mother for help?

The more I remember, the greater my regret becomes…

If it’s me now…

In this day and age…

Why… why did you have to die without us ever meeting…

I wanted to see Tsune-chan…

I want to see Tsune-chan…